Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Roxanne Emery is set to become the country’s most irresistible new pop star. She releases her debut single Real on November 8th on De Angelis Records. Real is the first single to be lifted from her forthcoming album – Remember Me - which will be released early next year.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

In my society, Im only solitary not alone.Looking for a little place, nothing more than home.

If the name doesnt ring a bell, Hôtel Costes is a famous hotel in Paris, France located in 239 rue St-Honore and perhaps best known for its bar and courtyard café. Now this establisment also releases its own compilation lounge music CDs, which contain music played and mixed within by DJ Stéphane Pompougnac. Along with other special music compilations, the hotel has released all in all 12 volumes for one discernable eargasm. Yes folks, eargasm.

Sweet as hell you might close your eyes and possibly guess Lykke Li and Marina & the Diamonds, butEllie Goulding is as original as a female musician gets. Struggling in this overrated music pool to the verge of overridden music sensibilities, the point is she's getting her message across so remember the name folks. Ellie Goulding is gearing for the release of her debut album and she just released her first music video for single Under The Sheets.

The Pierces are singer-songwriters sisters Allison and Catherine based in New York City. Former ballerinas turned songstresses, they released their self-titled debut in 2000 with Epic but was met with lukewarm reception. 0pening a week’s worth of shows for Albert Hammond Jr. in November 2006 greeted the girls with much more enthusiastic reception.

With a psychedelic indie and folk sound, the sisters are compared over the years to Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow. When asked how they would want others to describe their music, the girls responded, "like a fever induced, gypsy dream that you have after drinking too much red wine while listening to a cabaret singer in a southern speakeasy that is run by witches".

Thursday, June 4, 2009

When I walked through the door my wife she lay upon the floorAnd with tears her eyes did soar, I did not know whyThen I looked into her hand and I saw the telegramSaid that I was a brave, brave man, but that I was dead

As Ive mentioned before, MDA (Must Discover Artists) doesn't make other artists solely featured here any less adept to music or less suitable of acknowledgment per se but only to widen each eargasm experience by delivering what's currently hot and full of buzz out there while filtering sleazy from superior. After 4 reeling months Metaphor brings back to you her well-preserved post as being away from the interweb cause me an overflowing list of news-worthy artists in my desktop.

Django guitar, windy street swing; music for both art directors and for your mother. Well-known in Sweden, but unheard of elsewhere, they fold together elements of 1930’s big band swing, roma swing and rhythm & blues, then drop hiphop vocals on top for some serious energetic firepower.

Jonathan Warren Bechtolt (born December 2, 1980), performing under the name Jona Bechtolt, is an electronic musician and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon, United States. He is a former member of The Blow, and has released solo records under the name YACHT since 2003.

Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Grizzly Bear are a four piece psychedelic/experimental band. Grizzly Bear’s music is seductive and intimate, deep with hazy-eyed choruses, whistles, piano, banjo, and several woodwind instruments. In their music, melody and ambiance are necessary complements.

Fibes, Oh Fibes!, a swedish six piece band hailing from the town of Gothenburg on the Swedish westcoast. They play piano-heavy pop with influences by american westcoast rock, adult oriented rock, the slick production of disco-era fleetwood mac and blue eyed soul."Love Child""Get Up"

Pony Pony Run Run is a french power pop band formed in Nantes, FR and Angers, FR with original members; G for guitar and lead voice, A for bass ,T for Synth, S for guitar and back vocals and F for drums. Neat isnt it? But Pony Pony Run Run is not just another electro-pop band, no, that also would be too easy. Pony Pony Run Run is just a damn good pop band from this new easy and unselfconscious generation. Their first album is coming out on June 15th 2009 in France on their label 3ème Bureau featuring the single “Hey you”."Hey You""Hey You" (sayCet Remix)"Hey You" (PPRR Dance Remix)

Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam. The name Iron & Wine is taken from a dietary supplement named “Beef Iron & Wine” that he found in a general store while shooting a film. His songs range from in-depth literate narratives to love songs, and have helped to usher in a new generation of folk-pop singer/songwriters.

Phoenix started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D’Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in the affluent suburb of Versailles, in the same culture that produced late-’90s bands such as Air and Daft Punk. The band employs traditional and electronic instruments, ranging from a recorder to a laptop, and all four members contribute vocals. And yes, elbo.ws and hypemachine already overyhped this band along with the blogosphere.

With a self-desciption of "Im Marina, you are the diamonds", Marina & The Diamonds with one look and first listen would be instantly associated between the spectra of La Roux of Little Boots. There's the right amount of innovative panache coupled with wonderful musical pieces.

Basically LIVE FROM DARYL'S HOUSE is Daryl Hall and John Oates' (pop music duo in 1970s and 1980s) monthly performance webcast of playing music with his friends at his house and putting it up on the Internet. It is/was(?) an online sensation and I couldn't agree more after sauntering along the website. So far the show has had appearances by U.K. singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, Kevin Rudolf, Eric Hutchinson, and Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy, a longtime Hall fan, as well as a holiday special featuring songs from the Daryl Hall and John Oates release, Home for Christmas. The show recently also featured guests Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger of The Doors and the list goes on.

Daryl and John are already both in their 60's yet they definitely can still knock my socks off. I really do think that this is a very very very wonderful and unique way for artists/musicians for proving their virtuoso talents in their art. Because sometimes media frenzy can generally change a lot of how people perceive musicians and their material. P-Thugg and Dave 1 of Chromeo even rock out superbly "No Can Do", a Hall & Oates' original. Now what does that say about their musical limits? And this also refers to Daryl and John taking on mainstream pieces such as "Tenderoni" and "Let It Rock" beautifully. LFDH has been been praised by such varied publications as Rolling Stone, Daily Variety, Yahoo and the influential Lefsetz Letter.

I couldn't stress out more my love for this webcast. As a proof, heres a video of Chromeo's Tenderoni session (fast forward to 2:25) from LIVE FROM DARYL'S HOUSEfor verification of this webcast' greatness. Some videos can be found in their channel but for complete and archival sessions, the website is the best way to go. Happy watching.:) :) ;)

Friday, May 29, 2009

You know its hurts so bad just like I knew that it would,But I'd do it again, do it again if I could.

This is another band Ive been meaning to bring up even before the mini-hiatus of this blog. The Sounds is a Swedish New Wave band with influences of punk and pop/Synth-pop. They somehow reminds me of The Clicks in retrospect with bands also such as Roxette and Ace of Base. +/-

The Sounds is about to release their new album "Crossing the Rubicon" this 2nd of June. They are set also to play series headlining No Doubt as part of the latter's Summer Tour 2009. Proceed to their page for additional details.

In some manner their songs have formula that got enough drums and bass along with the resonating vocals for one to keep going. Just pulsating and stellar, and I couldn't wait for them to release new stuff as of now I have been loving the songs from their upcoming new album.

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